STATE ENACTMENT HIGHLIGHTS

JOHOR - En. 12 of 1991

The Control and Registraion Of The Propagation Of Non-Islamic Religions Enactment 1991

9. Offence relating to use of certain words and expressions of Islamic origin

(1) A person commits an offence if he, in any published writing, or in any public speech or statement, or in any speech or statement addressed to a gathering of persons, or in any such speech or statement which is published or broadcasted and which at the time of its making he knew or ought reasonably to have known would be published or broadcasted, uses any of the words of Islamic origin, or any of its derivatives or variations, to express or describe any fact, belief, idea, concept, act, activity, matter, or thing of or pertaining to any non-Islamic religion.

(2) A person who, is not a Muslim, commits an offence if he, in the circumstances laid down in subsection (1), uses any of the expressions of Islamic origin, except by way of quotation or reference.

(3) Any person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Passed in the Johor Legislative Assembly on the 24th day of December 1991

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